Found 3 collections related to Merchants -- New York (State) -- 18th century

David McCarty was a merchant of Coeymans, Albany County, New York, and a kinsman of Abraham Lott, the last treasurer of the Colony of New York under the British crown. Collection consists of correspondence, land papers, and legal records pertaining to the Coeymans Patent administered by Abraham Lott; papers documenting the mercantile activities of David McCarty and, to a lesser extent, Abraham Lott; and material relating to other real property in New York owned by McCarty less

William Smith (1745-1794) was an Irish-born merchant in Kakiat (now Ramapo), New York, who later went into business with his brother, Walter Smith. The accounts record transactions relating to rum, tea, textiles, and other sundries, with a gap in entries circa 1778-1780, presumably due to the Revolutionary War. less